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NEW HOPE: Borough gets funding for canal walk project
ARRA funds will complement a $316,000 Transportation Enhancement grant earmarked for the same project in 2004 By Linda Seida, Staff Writer NEW HOPE — The borough will receive $250,000 from funds allocated to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), making it the only Bucks County town to win funding in Pennsylvania Gov. Edward G.…
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ROBBINSVILLE: Anniversary celebration taking flight at airport
by Melissa L. Gaffney, Staff Writer ROBBINSVILLE — Residents and visitors this weekend will have an opportunity to visit the Trenton-Robbinsville Airport and envision the airfield the way it was decades ago, as a potato field. They also will be offered a rare glimpse of the township’s rich history revolving around transportation during the free…
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SENIOR MENUS
Aug. 6-13 All meals are served at noon at Hibernia Apartments in Lambertville. Reservations are required. Call 609-397-2228 24 hours in advance. The value of each meal is $4.95. Any amount donated over this is a tax-deductible contribution. All menus are subject to change and include milk and margarine. The sodium-controlled menu is the same…
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Taxpayers don’t need another referendum
Susan H. Schnorbus, Bordentown Township At the pubic hearings for the new Bordentown Regional High School, we were assured by (then) Superintendent Palomano that, if the referendum passed, no further bond referendums would be needed for many years to come. Now I read that a new sports complex larger than the 333,000-square-feet of athletic fields,…
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MCCC Receives State Grant to Help Adults Returning to College
By Saveria Symons WEST WINDSOR, N.J. — Mercer County Community College (MCCC) has received a $74,185 one-year grant from the New Jersey Commission on Higher Education to contact and re-engage previous students who left in good academic standing. The federally-funded grant seeks to increase the number of New Jersey students who complete college degrees or…
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Worried about boys’ safety
Elana Berlinger, of East Windsor I am responding to the article in last week’s paper regarding the Yeshiva operation in Roosevelt. First it was Bernie Madoff and then it was the rabbis in New Jersey who are involved in the corruption scandal. Now it is the people who are running the yeshiva. What an…
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CHESTERFIELD CHATTER: From the Aug. 6 edition
Nancy Mrzljak Nancy Mrzljak Tel: 298-0567 Fax: 298-3936 [email protected] The Crosswicks Library August hours are Monday 8:30 a.m. to noon, 12:30 p.m. to 4 p.m., Thursday 8:30 a.m. to noon, 12:30 p.m. to 7 p.m., Saturday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday closed. Regular hours will resume September 8.…
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ALLENTOWN: Local man found guilty of defrauding EWPAL
by Matt Chiappardi, The Packet Group TRENTON — A former executive director of the East Windsor Police Athletic League, who lives in Allentown, has been convicted of conspiracy, bribery and official misconduct. John Fiore, 63, of Redcoat Place, was found guilty Friday of defrauding EWPAL of more than $90,000 by steering a construction contract for…
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HILLSBOROUGH: Federal grant helping fund 163-acre farm preservation
By Audrey Levine, Staff Writer With the approval of the largest federal grant Hillsborough has ever received for farmland preservation, the township is preparing to pay only 17 percent of the $3.652 million cost of the development rights for the 163-acre Van Nuys farm. ”This is a real big win for us,” Deputy Mayor Bob…
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